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Kansas Legislature bitch-slapped over school funding

December 3, 2003 |

Kansas State FlagA Shawnee County (Topeka) judge has ruled that Kansas’ school financing formula is unfair and unconstitutional, and blames the Kansas Legislature for failing to fully fund the formula since it was established in 1992. Lawmakers and Governor Sebelius will have until July 1 to revise and fully fund the formula.

Topeka-Capital Journal: School Finance Flawed
Lawrence Journal-World: State Ruling Could Cost State $1 Billion
KC Star’s Mike Hendricks: Let’s Give Our Schools Justice


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  1. NorthGuy on December 18, 2003 3:55 pm

    It’s a shame that Kansas is letting their once-great schools decline. I grew up in the Shawnee Mission school district and had an excellent education. But all of the budget cutbacks and school closures in that district recently prompted us to look for a school system with better prospects for the future. We didn’t want to continue investing in a sinking school district.

    So we recently moved to the Northland and have been very happy in the Park Hill school district. They are also having budget problems like everyone else, but overall the district is growing and Missouri doesn’t seem as hostile to Park Hill as Kansas is towards the Johnson County districts.

  2. j324 on December 19, 2003 7:45 am

    NorthGuy, I understand your situation very well. We also just recently got out of the Shawnee Mission district. We were buying a new house and decided it would be a better investment to buy in Lee’s Summit, where the school district has much better prospects for the future. Shawnee Mission has been great in the past, but it seems about ready to start going down the tubes.

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